Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-05-05

j. NJ. Barker has just All ele'
CANT stock of clothing.
oh say do you want a good
harness? If You do call on o. P,
Vessel.
The best variety of meats in
the city, both fresh and salt, at 10,
Schachtes.
L. G. 0chsenreiter will soor
have his country residence ready fol-
occupancy.
Our streets have been almost
deserted the past week, farmers are
all in the field.
All kinds of vegetables and
berries can be found at Bankers the
rest of the season.
There will be Episcopal servI.
ces at Masonic Opera Hall next sab
bath, beginning at II o'clock.
When you want choice fruits,
vegetables or groceries, go to the
"star plug grocery of j. Schachte,
Never borrow trouble. The in,
terest you have to pay for the &C,
commodation is too much like ex.
tortion.
Mr.. Knight, of the firm Of
Knight & Dean, spent last week in
Webster, looking after his bushes:
interests here.
9hilosophy's a quality most rare
In most of us, in hours of trlbulation,
Ne only have philosophy to bear
Our neighbours ills, with patient resigna.
ton.
-Pecks friends gave him a sur
prise OH Saturday night, and the
little lads and lassies had just q
roaring good time.
AT the new harness shop OPP
posite the post office you will find
every thing from a snap to Il COM
plete sett of double harness
The question now arises. how
would Webster fight a fire should
one break out? Perhaps our city
council can answer this important
question.
Nothing unnerves the average
small boy 50 much as being obliged
to steal cookies out of a crock-to
his strained senses the rattle of the
caSer sounds like the crack of doom.
An exchange says that alcahol
will "clean silver" OF course it
will-clean every cent out of your
breeches pockets, as slick as grease,
if you'll let it.
j. f. Smith, of Arena, Wis.
cousin Of Mrs. l.. G.. Ochsenreiter,
spent Sunday in Webster. He ex-
presses himself az alphabetically
"stuck" on this country.
-Cross-eyed men should be care
full and particular what they do.
One of them winked at a friend ON
the street the other day, and a wo-
man just passing him punched him
In the stomach with an umbrella.
Rev. Handy conducted the
funeral exercises i'll memory of the
Stage boy, a notice of the finding
of whose body recently appeared in
these columns, on Sunday, at the
school house near Mlnnewashta lake.
The Webster Alliance will meet
at the Court House inWebster May
18th. Every member who fails to be
present will surely regret it. Paste
this notice in your hat.
Thos. Douglas, Secretary.
Thank God for mistakes and
take courage. When You see a man
who never makes q mistake, set him
down for a nandy-pandy pudden
head, who can't tell the difference
between a fried egg and a pumpkin,
The Directors of the Day coun-
ty Agricultural Society will meet at
the office of L. X. Ruggles next
Saturday at 2 o'clock. A full at
tendance is desired. as business OF
Importance is to come before the
meeting.
We hope to have some addi-
tional help the latter part of this
week, when we will be able to send
out work more promptly. Our pa
irons will please accept our thaaks
for their patience.
We heard a fellow say the other
day that he disposed a girl trying to
be a woman, and a woman trying to
be a girl. In five minutes he was
e1horting a boy ''to be a man.
Oh consistency, thou art a circus
poster.
"she feels her inmost soul within her
With thoughts too wild and passionate
to speak:
Yet her full heart-its own Interpreter
Translates itself in silence on her cheek
That's the kind of Il girl to take to
to "mum sociable."
We have u "pome," "a owd,'
from Billy Patterson, and now we
are waiting, with a burning hope
permeatIng our breast, that the man
who originally struck Billy will
call around and everlastingIy paral,
ize him.
An exchange says hat Queen
Victoria is Stingy. No such thing.
In renewing her subscription to the
Reporter she sent ten cents more
than the amount, and said We
needn't "bother" about the change.
Last Wednesday, +. Ochsen
%reiter, of Belle PLANE, Minnesota
bought the stock of general mer
ehandise belonging to the Evan
estate at Bristol. He proposes t.
continue the business at the ole
stand, having rented the building
for the ensuing year.
Cur success in life genduall,
bears a direct proportion to the ex
ertions we make, and if we aim a
nothing we shall certainly achieve
nothing. BY the remission of la
Dor and energy it often happen.
that poverty and contempt, disas
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